The first objective of a small exploratory study was to explore the speculation that adults do not resist change, but what they do resist are expected losses that may arise in association with the change. The second objective was to acquire some preliminary findings about the types of losses that adults may expect when facing change. Thirty…

Examined illness complaint rates in relation to degree of crowding in a federal prison and a county jail. The results suggest that crowding in prisons may induce psychological stress which can be reflected in an increased level of illness complaints. (BT)

Describes a Stanley Milgram type obedience experiment conducted with 192 Jordanian children ages 6-16. Seventy-three percent of the children responded via administering supposed dangerous electrical shocks to test subjects. (SL)

Reviews of research in the area of creativity have consistently emphasized the importance of the criterion problem while simultaneously documenting its neglect by contemporary investigators. The failure to explicitly place the criterion problem within an appropriate conceptual model is perhaps a major reason for the failure to confront directly…

Stresses the importance of including ethnically diverse populations in psychological research. Seeks to determine the extent to which behavioral psychology has recognized issues of ethnic diversity in its published literature. Research finds that overall, only 1.31% of articles published in 3 well-known behavior journals focused on U.S. ethnic…

Female subjects in this study were induced to harm another person in an alleged "learning" study by administering aversive noise to a confederate-victim as she performed a problem-solving task. The subjects consisted of forty-six female undergraduates enrolled in Introductory Psychology at the University of Toronto. They were randomly assigned to…

Two years of observation of the behavior of visitors in several museums led to the knowledge of the degree of simplicity that is desirable in museum surroundings and of the need for pamphlets that are better prepared than the usual guide books and catalogs. It also led to the advice that museum directors become experimental psychologists, and that…